ré

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe/

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Noun

ré m (plural ré)

1. (music) re, the note 'D'

Further reading

• “ré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Hungarian

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• Rhymes: -reː

Noun

ré (plural rék)

1. re, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale

   Coordinate terms: dó, mi, fá, szó, lá, ti

Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

Further reading

• (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

Anagrams

• ér

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾˠeː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish roe, rói (“plain”), from Proto-Celtic *rowos. Cognate with Latin rūs. Akin to raon.

Noun

ré f (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réite)

1. stretch of ground; level ground
2. field

Declension

Alternative forms

• rae

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ré, possibly from Proto-Celtic *rowis.

Noun

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (agriculture) row
2. lineage, row

Alternative forms

• rae

Noun

ré f or m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (archaic) moon; phase of moon; month
2. period
   1. portion of time
   2. span of life, of career
   3. age, era, epoch
3. (literary) space, intervening distance

Declension

Alternative forms

• reo

Derived terms

• leathré (“half-life”)
• roimh ré (“in advance, beforehand”)

Etymology 3

From Latin resonāre (“to resound”), from the first word of the second line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

Noun

ré m (genitive singular ré, nominative plural réanna)

1. (music) re

Declension

References

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ré”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “ré” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “ré” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Lashi

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹe˥/

Verb

ré

1. (intransitive) to come

Synonyms

• lo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹḛ˥/

Particle

ré

1. Used to create yes-or-no questions

   Nang ngá bá ri se ré? ― Do you know your father? (Quoting Luk, p.93)

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 16

Mandarin

Romanization

ré (re², Zhuyin ㄖㄜˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 若

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• re, ri, ría

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸrīs (compare Gaulish ris), from Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognate with English first and Latin prīscus (“former”). The eclipsis trigger is analogical to íar (“after”). The inflected forms in -m, as well as the cognate prefix rem-, are from the superlative *ɸrīsamos (compare Latin prīmus (“first”)).

Pronunciation

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Preposition

ré (with the dative; triggers eclipsis)

1. before
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

Inflection

Combined with a definite article:

• resin(d) (“before the sg”)

Combined with a possessive determiner:

• rem (“before my”)
• renna, rinna, rena (“before his/her/its/their”)

Combined with a relative pronoun:

• resa

Descendants

• ⇒ Irish: roimh (from rïam (third-person singular masculine))

References

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “6 ré, ría”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 275, 527–28
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 299

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ré

Etymology 1

From Latin re[sonāre] in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

ré m (plural rés)

1. re (musical note)

Coordinate terms

• (C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

Etymology 2

From Latin retrō.

Noun

ré f (plural rés)

1. (nautical) stern (rear part of a ship or vessel)
2. (Brazil) reverse (gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) marcha à ré, (Brazil) marcha a ré, (Portugal) marcha-atrás

Etymology 3

From Latin rea.

Adjective

ré f sg

1. feminine singular of réu

Noun

ré f (plural rés)

1. female equivalent of réu

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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Verb

ré • (㕽, 哩)

1. to screech